How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that read more

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any one of us to talk about the rest of us.

She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend read more

She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend on the greasy spit of scandal if circumstances warranted it.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we
are a set always ready to believe a scandal.
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The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we
are a set always ready to believe a scandal.
[Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit:
Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.]

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.